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Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946.Today, the laboratory has about 4,500 employees, including about 1,775 scientists and engineers, of whom about 800 hold doctorate degrees. Argonne's annual operating budget of about $470 million supports more than 200 research projects, ranging from studies of the atomic nucleus to global climate change research.
C E R N is one of the world's largest scientific laboratories and an outstanding example of international collaboration of its many member states. (The acronym CERN comes from the earlier French title: "Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire").
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory advances the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines.Fermilab operates the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, the Tevatron. More than 2,200 scientists from 36 states and 20 countries use Fermilab's facilities to carry out research at the frontiers of particle physics.
The mission of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is to apply science and technology in the national interest. LLNL's focus is on global security, global ecology, and bioscience. Laboratory employees are working with industrial and academic partners to increase national economic competitiveness and improve science education. The Laboratory's mission is dynamic and has been changed over the years to meet new national needs.
Los Alamos lab, located with the town of Los Alamos approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, occupies 43 square miles of land in Northern New Mexico. Owned by the Department of Energy, Los Alamos has been managed by the University of California since 1943, when the Laboratory was born as part of the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic weapons during World War II.National security remains the central part of Los Alamos' mission, but you will learn while exploring this Web site that our scientific expertise is very broad and ranges from innovative biological research to modeling global climate, and from novel methods for examining material properties to helping explore the outer reaches of the solar system. We also boast what is arguably the greatest concentration of scientific computing power on the planet.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL is a Department of Energy multiprogram laboratory managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation. ORNL researchers, in cooperation with other federal agencies, industry, and universities, conduct a wide range of research and development activities that enhance the nation's energy resources, environmental quality, scientific knowledge, educational foundations, and economic competitiveness.
Sandia is a national security laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Co. We design all non-nuclear components for the nation's nuclear weapons, perform a wide variety of energy research and development projects, and do assignments that respond to national security threats -- both military and economic. We encourage and seek partnerships with appropriate U.S. industry and government groups to collaborate on emerging technologies that support our mission.
